Cikita Z., Cikiz, CKZ... all aliases of Nadia Francesca Zanellato, born in Turin,Italia, the 3rd of April of 1974.
At thirteen, I began to wear lipgloss, moving on to lipstick at fourteen. After graduating from high-school in 1993, I attended a course of illustration and comic art and I saw my first comic story published on 1996 in the monthly magazine "Psycoattiva" of Edizioni Shake, Milano.In the meantime, I was drawing and painting as often as possible, for local fanzines, squats, bands' album covers, t-shirts, on city walls and otherinteresting surfaces. I spent the next three years of my life travelling around Europe, living and working mostly in Ireland, France and the Netherlands. It was here that I was affected by the most intense and revealing work experience. I became assistant and multilingual guide in the Contemporary Art Museum Het Domein of Sittard , where I had the possibility to meet international artists and to view their works - Pippilotti Rist in particular is the one who started my interest in videoart. Throughout 1998 and 1999, I worked at the atelier of fashion accessories of stylist M.Bonavita, experiencing new visions about fashion, materials and shapes. During these years, I began to work in conjunction with art galleries in both Turin and Milan. In January 1999 I founded with
A. Daddi the videoart-group KIDDDZ, for which we were selected for the 2000 edition of BIG (Biennale of Young artists of the Mediterranean area) and we are now still working and touring Europe as v-jís.In 2000/2001, I attended a multimedia school which resulted in my working free-lance in graphics,animation and video choosing those projects where I could express and involve my art and illustrative aptitude and attitude.

And today I 'm happy because my life can just be pink or black, and the good thing is that usually I can choose between which colour lenses I view the world - I draw and paint in a STUPIDINA PINKYPOP-GLITTERY-ONIRICO
-CHILDISH style because I think that deep and melancholy art is too easy a path to follow these days and, therefore, too dull and boring a route! I try to translate events of everyday life into sparkling instantaneous freeze frames - to perceive the magic in the ordinary - to emphasise fears with burning colours. I want to suspend the invocation and the surprise to keep them constantly alive; I am seeking for the innocent and the amazing, for my own delight and secret holiness.